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Post by nellikin » Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:11 pm

How about the last ice age creating a land-bridge between North America and Russia, allowing colonisation of the Americas? Then the end of the ice-age and concurrent warming enabling higher production and hence expansion of human populations, both in numbers and territory. May not have been that good for the world in general, but certainly key to human expansion.

Must also mention the development of agriculture and animal husbandry, allowing humans to transition from hunter-gatherers to sedentary farmers. This also enabled farmers' produce to support others in society and hence gave birth to kleptocratic hierarchies and their associated armies. Ahh the sweet birth of modern civilisation. :leave:
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Post by Randydeluxe » Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:41 pm

1. The big bang.

2. Abiogenesis on earth.

3. The mitochondrial merger.

4. The emergence of photosynthesis.

5. The K-T asteroid impact.

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Post by RuleBritannia » Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:58 pm

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary on June 28, 1914.

His death would lead to the First World War, and in turn the rise of communism, the Second World War and Cold War.
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Tue Mar 30, 2010 11:43 pm

Randydeluxe wrote:1. The big bang.

2. Abiogenesis on earth.

3. The mitochondrial merger.

4. The emergence of photosynthesis.

5. The K-T asteroid impact.
Those are great, events, but all of them are pre-historic and the OP concerns historical events.

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Post by nellikin » Tue Mar 30, 2010 11:51 pm

So when does history start?
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Post by Bruce Burleson » Wed Mar 31, 2010 12:07 am

FedUpWithFaith wrote: #1 has to be a joke, just like the "Great" State of Texas, home of the two fattest cities in the US!
That is a racist comment, as everyone knows that the main reason Texas has a lot of fat people is because of its superior Tex-Mex food. But at the Battle of San Jacinto, marinated beef fajitas wrapped in flour tortillas, covered with sour cream, grilled onions and pico de gallo, and drizzled with garlic butter, had not yet been invented. Most of the Texans were skinny, living on beef jerky. That's why they were so damn angry.

I stand by my assessment of the Battle of San Jacinto as a significant event that led to the modern world. If you visit the San Jacinto monument, the world's tallest phallic symbol, the video they show you says the same thing, so it must be true.

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Post by RuleBritannia » Wed Mar 31, 2010 12:08 am

nellikin wrote:So when does history start?
"History" normally only covers human affairs, not natural ones.
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Post by nellikin » Wed Mar 31, 2010 1:22 am

I guess the recent earthquake in Chile wasn't historic then...
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Post by Bruce Burleson » Wed Mar 31, 2010 1:39 am

nellikin wrote:I guess the recent earthquake in Chile wasn't historic then...
Well, the earthquake certainly affected humans, so it was history. History is confined to the story of humankind.

Well, you can have natural history, but that is another history.

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Post by nellikin » Wed Mar 31, 2010 3:21 am

So the end of the last ice-age heralding a time of greater primary production and leading to the devlopment of agrarian civilisation - historic event or not?
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Post by Bruce Burleson » Wed Mar 31, 2010 3:34 am

nellikin wrote:So the end of the last ice-age heralding a time of greater primary production and leading to the devlopment of agrarian civilisation - historic event or not?
Human history is recorded. Was there a written record of some sort of the last ice-age? Cave paintings?

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Post by RuleBritannia » Wed Mar 31, 2010 4:47 am

nellikin wrote:So the end of the last ice-age heralding a time of greater primary production and leading to the devlopment of agrarian civilisation - historic event or not?
It's an historic event because it's in the past, but you wouldn't be taught about it in history class, more likely geography or geology .
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Post by Lion IRC » Wed Mar 31, 2010 5:45 am

The rise of self consciousness. (Palaeolithic age)
The ministry of Jesus of Nazareth (Axial age)
The investiture controversy. (Middle age)
The rise of the university. (Middle age)
The rise of the corporation
Quantum weirdness and the death of the theory of everything. (Post modern age)
The rise of New Atheism (Second renaissance of religion)

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PS - I should have probably put something about maths/counting in there as well.

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Post by nellikin » Wed Mar 31, 2010 6:52 am

Lion IRC wrote:The rise of self consciousness. (Palaeolithic age)
The ministry of Jesus of Nazareth (Axial age)
The investiture controversy. (Middle age)
The rise of the university. (Middle age)
The rise of the corporation
Quantum weirdness and the death of the theory of everything. (Post modern age)
The rise of New Atheism (Second renaissance of religion)

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PS - I should have probably put something about maths/counting in there as well.
Too true - considering you suggested 7 things and were only asked for 5 ;)
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Re: Five Most Important Events/Occurrences in History...

Post by normal » Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:07 am

I look at most of the suggestions, and they seem very trivial to me. Maybe I don't think human history is important.
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